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Selina Hastings: Sybille Bedford
Episode 42
The first biography of this much loved author, bonne vivante, European, and John Sandoe customer, mentored by Aldous Huxley. Hastings’ earlier biogra…
5 years, 9 months ago
Wodehouse Wednesdays: Jeeves and the Leap of Faith
Episode 41
Another lockdown, another double-bill of Wodehouse Wednesdays - but not quite as you know it. John de Falbe reads from Ben Schott's latest homage to …
5 years, 9 months ago
Hermione Lee: Tom Stoppard
Episode 40
Johnny interviews Sir Tom, while Dame Hermione - a leading literary biographer - gives a short introduction to her new book.
Edited by Magnus Rena
…5 years, 9 months ago
William Boyd: Trio
Episode 39
Brighton, 1968: a film producer, a novelist and an actress find their private lives encroaching into their public worlds. Pressures build on the trio…
5 years, 10 months ago
Martin Latham: The Bookseller's Tale
Episode 38
Do you write in the margins? Have you lied about reading War and Peace? Which books are your 'comfort reads'?
Martin Latham muses with Johnny on a l…
5 years, 11 months ago
Judith Herrin: Ravenna
Episode 37
Johnny chats to the illustrious academic about her dazzling new book, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe.
Edited by Magnus Rena
5 years, 11 months ago
Loyd Grossman: An Elephant in Rome
Episode 36
To accompany the publication of his new book, Loyd (an old friend of the shop) talks about Baroque Rome... in all its rich papal splendour.
Edited …
6 years ago
David Mitchell: Utopia Avenue
Episode 35
David chats to Johnny about his latest novel: a gorgeous, rich, magnificent imagining of a 1960s pop group...
Edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Fairpo…
6 years, 1 month ago
Wodehouse Wednesdays 10.2: Pining for Pongo
Episode 34
From P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Dynamite.
Read by John de Falbe, edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher
6 years, 2 months ago
Wodehouse Wednesdays 10.1: Next Stop, Ashenden
Episode 33
From P.G. Wodehouse, Uncle Dynamite.
Read by John de Falbe, edited by Magnus Rena
Music: Cab Calloway, Minnie the Moocher
6 years, 2 months ago